I’ve just deleted the Quora app from my iOS devices, and don’t anticipate re-opening the Quora tabs on my browser windows. I still stand by the content I have created here, all 21,802 answers and 46 questions, so I won’t be deleting my account. But if you don’t already know how to contact me off ...

Ayurveda is commonly mistaken for a science. In fact it is a collection of pre-scientific superstitions. Its antiquity counts against it, not for it. Actual science based medicine is barely over a century old. Any system going back thousands of years is pre-scientific superstition. It’s so-called...